Senior infrastructure architect vs senior system administrator

Differences between senior infrastructure architect and senior system administrator duties and responsibilities

Senior infrastructure architect example responsibilities.

• Manage and support Citrix application builds and release cycles.
• Manage Cisco ASA firewalls and Microsoft ISA firewalls in production environment providing secure configurations and monitoring of the firewall logs.
• Provision, configure and maintain cloud resources including server instances, load balancers, security groups, DNS management, certificates.
• Plan and implement a sophisticate Linux server environment for a major MVNO.
• Assist in the development of a long term vision and strategy regarding virtualization and storage.
• Install new servers, all new workstations, switches, backup system, and cabling.
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Senior system administrator example responsibilities.

• Manage and optimize the design and delivery of project associate with AIX arena.
• Manage all installs and setup of new servers, and server upgrades to server 2008 R2.
• Implement IIS servers for both the internal and external web servers and managing security on all web servers.
• Design, implement, and manage a network and domain extension in a remote location via a secure VPN link.
• Manage Cisco network equipment including firewalls and switches.
• Administer and manage daily backups via Symantec NetBackup.
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